[tn-bird] Draft EIS Resident Canada Goose Management
- From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 1-A TN-Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:15:58 -0400
TN-Birders:
The following is the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Notice that
the Draft Environmental Impact Satement on the management
of our Giant Canada Goose population (resident Canada Goose
Population) is now available from the service.
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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[Federal Register: March 7, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 45)]
[Notices]
[Page 10431-10432]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr07mr02-92]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Notice of Availability; Draft Environmental Impact Statement on
Resident Canada Goose Management
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has prepared a
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) which is available for
public review. The DEIS analyzes the potential environmental impacts of
alternative strategies to reduce, manage, and control resident Canada
goose populations in the continental United States and to reduce goose-
related damages. The analysis provided in the DEIS is intended to
accomplish the following: inform the public of the proposed action and
alternatives; address public comment received during the scoping
period; and disclose the direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental
effects of the proposed actions and each of the alternatives. The
Service invites the public to comment on the DEIS.
DATES: Written comments on the DEIS must be received by May 30, 2002.
ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the DEIS should be mailed to Chief,
Division of Migratory Bird Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Department of the Interior, ms 634-ARLSQ, 1849 C Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20240. Comments on the DEIS should be sent to the above
address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jon Andrew, Chief, Division of
Migratory Bird Management, or Ron Kokel (703) 358-1714.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 19, 1999, a notice was published
in the Federal Register (64 FR 45269) announcing that the Service
intended to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for resident
Canada goose management. Comments were received and considered and are
reflected in the
[[Page 10432]]
DEIS made available for comment through this notice. This notice is
provided pursuant to Fish and Wildlife Service regulations for
implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (40 CFR
1506.6).
Several public hearings will be held throughout the country during
the comment period to solicit oral comments from the public. The dates
and locations of these hearings are yet to be determined. A notice of
public meetings with the locations, dates, and times will be published
in the Federal Register.
We will not consider anonymous comments. All comments received,
including names and addresses, will become part of the public record.
The public may inspect comments during normal business hours in Room
634--Arlington Square Building, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington,
Virginia. Requests for such comments will be handled in accordance with
the Freedom of Information Act and the Council on Environmental
Quality's National Environmental Policy Act regulations (40 CFR
1506.6(f)). Our practice is to make comments available for public
review during regular business hours. Individual respondents may
request that we withhold their home address from the record, which we
will honor to the extent allowable by law. If a respondent wishes us to
withhold his/her name and/or address, this must be stated prominently
at the beginning of the comment.
The DEIS evaluates alternative strategies to reduce, manage, and
control resident Canada goose populations in the continental United
States and to reduce goose-related damages. The objective of the DEIS
is to provide a regulatory mechanism that would allow State and local
agencies, other Federal agencies, and groups and individuals to respond
to damage complaints or damages by resident Canada geese. The DEIS is a
comprehensive programmatic plan intended to guide and direct resident
Canada goose population growth and management activities in the
conterminous United States. The DEIS analyzes seven management
alternatives: (1) No Action (Alternative A); (2) Increase Use of
Nonlethal Control and Management (excludes all permitted activities)
(Alternative B); (3) Increase Use of Nonlethal Control and Management
(continued permitting of those activities generally considered
nonlethal) (Alternative C); (4) New Regulatory Options to Expand
Hunting Methods and Opportunities (Alternative D); (5) Integrated
Depredation Order Management (consisting of an Airport Depredation
Order, a Nest and Egg Depredation Order, a Agricultural Depredation
Order, and a Public Health Depredation Order) (Alternative E); (6)
State Empowerment (PROPOSED ACTION) (Alternative F); and (7) General
Depredation Order (Alternative G). Alternatives were analyzed with
regard to their potential impacts on resident Canada geese, other
wildlife species, natural resources, special status species,
socioeconomics, historical resources, and cultural resources.
Our proposed action (Alternative F) would establish a regulation
authorizing State wildlife agencies (or their authorized agents) to
conduct (or allow) management activities, including the take of birds,
on resident Canada goose populations. Alternative F would authorize
indirect and/or direct population control strategies such as aggressive
harassment, nest and egg destruction, gosling and adult trapping and
culling programs, expanded methods of take to increase hunter harvest,
or other general population reduction strategies. The intent of
Alternative F is to allow State wildlife management agencies sufficient
flexibility, within predefined guidelines, to deal with problems caused
by resident Canada geese within their respective States. Other
guidelines under Alternative F would include criteria for such
activities as special expanded harvest opportunities during the portion
of the Migratory Bird Treaty closed period (August 1-31), airport,
agricultural, and public health control, and the non-permitted take of
nests and eggs.
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